Console or Budget Build?

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

Now I'm faced with somewhat of a dilemma here - long are the days of wanting a horrifically expensive gaming PC. I'm seventeen, I have about £550/£600 and a 19'' 1280x1024 Dell Monitor, and hopefully with your guys' help, I could come to a wise decision.

I am faced with essentially two options. The first is the easy option: get a Playstation 4, a couple of games and a nice 24'' 1920x1080 monitor. The second option is this: spend whatever money I have on a budget gaming PC (possibly Steam Machine) and keep my old monitor for a while. 

 

Some advice as to which one I should do would be wonderful, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please bare in mind though that I'm not made of money.

 

Best,

 

Rob

[CoolBeans]

PC

[miyabwah]

Budget build FTW. Xbox one isn't getting 1080p.

[WoodenMarker]

Your budget isn't exactly low. You have enough for a decent gaming system.

[MasterJV]

PC.

Your budget isn't "low." It can get you a great gaming pc.

[Wauthar]

Definitely go for the PC. Even if you have a low budget now, you could always upgrade later!

[helping]

600 euro is enough for a moderately ok PC build. 

[Tmh85]

PC trust me on this you wont regret it, Here some reasons

1. Communities better

2. Save money in long run because games are cheaper

3. You can do more than play games on a PC

4. You can do everything better and faster than a console on a console, even at your budget

5. Because I said so

[miyabwah]

I can see it now....

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU:  AMD Athlon II X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard:  MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard  ($48.99 @ Amazon)
Memory:  Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($69.99 @ Microcenter)
Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.65 @ OutletPC)
Video Card:  MSI Radeon HD 7850 2GB Video Card  ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Case:  Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($29.99 @ Microcenter)
Power Supply:  Corsair CX 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Microcenter)
Total: $473.59
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-08 17:28 EST-0500)

[Guest]

Gosh, I wasn't expecting so many replies so quickly. Thank you everyone for the advice. Judging by what you're all saying it's pretty much a no-brainer. PC it is. 

[HeathCliff]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1ZnEX

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1ZnEX/by_merchant/

Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/1ZnEX/benchmarks/

 

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor  (£83.99 @ Aria PC) 

Motherboard: ASRock 970 EXTREME4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard  (£69.56 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: Kingston XMP Blu Red Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£49.73 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Crucial V4 64GB 2.5" Solid State Disk  (£37.92 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.92 @ Aria PC) 

Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card  (£163.76 @ Aria PC) 

Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£89.94 @ Aria PC) 

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply  (£55.68 @ Dabs) 

Total: £594.50

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-08 22:38 GMT+0000)

 

If you're an OCD freak like me, you can swap out the ram and gpu for a matching ones. Also 600W so you can CF in the future.